What new legislators are taught should outrage California voters whether they are Democrat, Republican or in between.

Monday will be a historic day in the California State Legislature: The largest class of women legislators in the state's history will be sworn in, bringing the total to 49% of its members being women.

California’s Legislature, full of freshly minted Senators and Assembly members, returned to the state Capitol chambers Monday for the first organization session. Members, often joined by their ...

California saw ... Meanwhile, the number of legislative staff has shifted only slightly since the mid-1990s, according to ...

Should military retirement income be exempt from state taxation? That’s the goal of one of the very first bills filed for the 2025-26 legislative session. From Sen. Kelly Seyarto, a Republican whose ...

Over the phone, Lena Gonzalez's voice had the patient but proud tone of a lawyer charged with defending the damned.

When new state lawmakers are sworn in on Monday, California’s legislature will hit a historic milestone: 59 of its 120 members will be women. That means women will comprise 49% of the state’s ...

By September, even the Black Caucus, chief promoter of reparations within the state’s legislative bodies, became hesitant. Arguably, California’s shrinking political will constituted an ...

There are a number of publications that are regularly used by the California Legislature. Of note is that several of these ...

A week after the November election, I joined nearly two dozen newly elected members ... on how the state Legislature itself works. What new legislators are taught should outrage California voters ...